Augustine, 1994 - Google Patents

Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
  • H04N5/30—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information
  • H04N5/335—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information using solid-state image sensors [SSIS]
  • H04N5/369—SSIS architecture; Circuitry associated therewith
  • H04N5/374—Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors
  • H04N5/3745—Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors having additional components embedded within a pixel or connected to a group of pixels within a sensor matrix, e.g. memories, A/D converters, pixel amplifiers, shared circuits or shared components
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
  • H04N5/30—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information
  • H04N5/335—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information using solid-state image sensors [SSIS]
  • H04N5/369—SSIS architecture; Circuitry associated therewith
  • H04N5/378—Readout circuits, e.g. correlated double sampling [CDS] circuits, output amplifiers or A/D converters
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
  • H04N5/30—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information
  • H04N5/335—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information using solid-state image sensors [SSIS]
  • H04N5/357—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise
  • H04N5/3575—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise involving a correlated sampling function, e.g. correlated double or triple sampling
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N3/00—Scanning details of television systems
  • H04N3/10—Scanning details of television systems by means not exclusively optical-mechanical
  • H04N3/14—Scanning details of television systems by means not exclusively optical-mechanical by means of electrically scanned solid-state devices
  • H04N3/15—Scanning details of television systems by means not exclusively optical-mechanical by means of electrically scanned solid-state devices for picture signal generation
  • H04N3/155—Control of the image-sensor operation, e.g. image processing within the image-sensor
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
  • H04N5/30—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information
  • H04N5/335—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information using solid-state image sensors [SSIS]
  • H04N5/351—Control of the SSIS depending on the scene, e.g. brightness or motion in the scene
  • H04N5/355—Control of the dynamic range
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N3/00—Scanning details of television systems
  • H04N3/10—Scanning details of television systems by means not exclusively optical-mechanical
  • H04N3/14—Scanning details of television systems by means not exclusively optical-mechanical by means of electrically scanned solid-state devices
  • H04N3/15—Scanning details of television systems by means not exclusively optical-mechanical by means of electrically scanned solid-state devices for picture signal generation
  • H04N3/1506—Scanning details of television systems by means not exclusively optical-mechanical by means of electrically scanned solid-state devices for picture signal generation with addressing of the image-sensor elements
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
  • H04N5/30—Transforming light or analogous information into electric information
  • H04N5/32—Transforming X-rays
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01T—MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
  • G01T1/00—Measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation, or cosmic radiation
  • G01T1/16—Measuring radiation intensity
  • G01T1/24—Measuring radiation intensity with semiconductor detectors
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01T—MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
  • G01T1/00—Measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation, or cosmic radiation
  • G01T1/16—Measuring radiation intensity
  • G01T1/20—Measuring radiation intensity with scintillation detectors
  • G01T1/2018—Scintillation-photodiode combination
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
  • H04N5/14—Picture signal circuitry for video frequency region
  • H04N5/21—Circuitry for suppressing or minimising disturbance, e.g. moiré, halo, even if the automatic gain control is involved
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
  • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
  • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
  • H01L27/146—Imager structures
  • H01L27/14643—Photodiode arrays; MOS imagers

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